> Good job to the Debian people for making a seamless and easy to deal 
> with OS (other than install but I think that's coming along too).

Have you already tried our new installer coming up with the next release
(sarge)? Its a real major improvement to the pita installers we had before.

> I've personally never watched a netboot process via tcpdump so I don't 
> know what to look for.

I've already utilised tcpdump and ethereal (latter one is more helpful for
this) and i can clearly see that the machine fetches the NetBSD kernel from
the boot server and after that nothing else happens. The blinking nic led
after this seems strange.


Regards
Michael

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